Philosophers of biology generally recognize that evolutionary fitness (roughly, an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in its environment) is multiply realizable. — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The body is a self-healing organism, so it's really about clearing things out of the way so the body can heal itself. — Barbara Brennan Copy Share Image
First, Darwinian theory tells us how a certain amount of diversity in life forms can develop once we have various types of… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
A disease is never a mere loss or excess. There is always a reaction on the part of the organism or individual… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in… — Olivier Theyskens Copy Share Image
Earth is a living entity. And if it's a living organism, then we have to have a reverence for all life. Food… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
When in organism there are cancer cells, they have to be removed, not helped because they're "so young" and "so creative". — Janusz Korwin-Mikke Copy Share Image
The biochemistry and biophysics are the notes required for life; they conspire, collectively, to generate the real unit of life, the organism.… — Ursula Goodenough Copy Share Image
Harmful bacteria, viruses, calcium-forming micro-organisms, and candida are part of our world. Unfortunately, so are toxic chemicals, including everything from pesticides to… — David Wolfe Copy Share Image
Time is a social institution and not a physical reality. There is no such thing as time in the natural world -… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Ants offer special advantages for some important kinds of basic biological research. The colony is a superorganism. It can be analyzed as… — Bert Holldobler Copy Share Image
In a sense, evolution adheres to the classic twelve-step program: it takes things one day at a time. It does not strive… — Natalie Copy Share Image
No practical biologist interested in sexual reproduction would be led to work out the detailed consequences experienced by organisms having three or… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
Nature first, then theory. Or, better, Nature and theory closely intertwined while you throw all your intellectual capital at the subject. Love… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Early in my career I discovered that there was something really special about photographing at night that places your mind on the… — James Balog Copy Share Image
The nucleic acids, as constituents of living organisms, are comparable In importance to proteins. There is evidence that they are Involved In… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
Therapeutic fasting is not a mystical or magical cure. It works because the body has within it the capacity to heal when… — Joel Fuhrman Copy Share Image
I have increasingly become conversant with Pythagoras' and Goethe's idea of a primordial music, not perceptible to the sensuous ear, but sounding… — Bruno Walter Copy Share Image
Biologists have long attempted by chemical means to induce in higher organisms predictable and specific changes which thereafter could be transmitted in… — Oswald Avery Copy Share Image
All living organisms are but leaves on the same tree of life. The various functions of plants and animals and their specialized… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
I can only gaze with wonder and awe at the depths of and heights of our psychic nature. Its non-spatial universe conceals… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Suppose that the organism is given the problem of determining the analysis of a stimulus at a certain level of representation -… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive. An… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
If you want to study one of these strange organisms, you had better have a good justification. It's not good to say… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It has become evident that the primary lesson of the study of evolution is that all evolution is coevolution: every organism is… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
To operate а tank as a crew, it's not about five individuals. It has to be one organism, composed of five people. — David Ayer Copy Share Image
We as a culture are forgetting that we are actually natural organisms and that we have this very, very deep connection and… — James Balog Copy Share Image
We're all vanishing organisms and disappearing creatures in space and time - that death sentence in space in time that Kafka talked… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
It is remarkable that the elements diffused through the host of stars are some of those most closely connected with the living… — William Huggins Copy Share Image
The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
In many organisms, including man, the mechanical respiration and the circulation of the blood are 'regulated' so as to correspond to the… — August Krogh Copy Share Image
It has taken four billion years of evolution to generate this kind of organism with this kind of brain, and yet we… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Our primeval Mother Earth is an organism that no science in the world can rationalize. Everything on her that crawls and flies… — Viktor Schauberger Copy Share Image
A tree is a wonderful living organism which gives shelter, food, warmth and protection to all living things. It even gives shade… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I have found the study of organisms to be a truly exciting experience, always interesting and sometimes humbling. — Edward T. Hall Copy Share Image
There are sincere believers who interpret Genesis 1 and 2 in a very literal way that is inconsistent, frankly, with our knowledge… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
